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Manmade global warming: stormy meeting between sceptics and believers
2013-12-13 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It was a summit of sorts, but certainly not a meeting of minds: at 10am on 19 November, six of Britain's most eminent climate change scientists entered a wood-panelled committee room in the House of Lords to face the country's most prominent climate change sceptic, Lord Lawson. The scientists had originally understood the meeting to be a private briefing for the former chancellor, following a spat between the peer and Professor Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel prize-winning biologist and president of...
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Climate change: sceptics, deniers and believers
2013-10-04 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Speaking at a conference run by the European Space Agency in Edinburgh last month, David Willetts, the UK science minister, recounted how he had recently sat next to a climate sceptic, or you could say, denier, at a dinner. He had been able to rebut this persons scepticism about the earths shrinking polar ice caps by using data from the ESAs Cryosat satellite mission, which measures the extent and thickness of polar ice from space. It was a heartening moment for those of us who have noticed...
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End-time believers may not care about climate change
2013-07-12 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: End time belief has an almost salacious appeal in America--and not just to the four out of ten Americans who believe that Jesus Christ will return to Earth by 2050. At least since the Millerites were laughed off the national stage in 1844, watching prophecy fail has become something of a national pastime. The attitudes of the two groups--heavenly-minded believer and smirking spectator--are well captured in a pair of bumper stickers: In case of Rapture, this car will be unmanned and In case of...
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Extreme weather is making Americans climate-change believers, study finds
2013-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Postmedia: A year of strange and often devastating weather that included extreme hurricanes, drought and wildfires appears to have increased the number of Americans who want government action on climate change, a new study shows. Unfortunately, researchers say, this higher level of global-warming awareness is not translating into political action. Mother Nature has been pretty busy teaching Americans and Canadians and people from round the world about climate change through extreme weather over the past...
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Climate-change believers clash with skeptics as city hall plans for volatile weather of the future
2013-01-30 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: Predictions of a future with even more extreme weather in Toronto should be taken seriously, if only as a precaution, says a climate change skeptic at city hall, as others suggested the municipality may have to spend billions of dollars rejigging its infrastructure. The parks and environment committee unanimously agreed to set up a working group to examine the increasingly wet and volatile climate described in Torontos $250,000 Future Weather and Climate Driver study. Among its most alarming...